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The death toll in the crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran spiked Sunday to at least 538 people.
Over 10,600 people have been detained, said the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.
The toll is likely to go up.
Over 10,600 people have been detained, said the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.
The toll is likely to go up.
Death toll in crackdown on protests in Iran spikes to at least 538, activists say
Activists say the death toll in the crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran spiked Sunday to at least 538 people. The U.S.
apnews.com
January 11, 2026 at 4:50 PM
The death toll in the crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran spiked Sunday to at least 538 people.
Over 10,600 people have been detained, said the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.
The toll is likely to go up.
Over 10,600 people have been detained, said the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.
The toll is likely to go up.
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📢All updates to the guide to applying are being released quarterly
✅Version 2.7
In this update we address shared copyright, a new requirement for Subscribe to Open (S2O) journals, and clarify some wording
#OpenAccess #BestPractice #QualityCriteria #Copyright #S2O
🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/01/12/u...
✅Version 2.7
In this update we address shared copyright, a new requirement for Subscribe to Open (S2O) journals, and clarify some wording
#OpenAccess #BestPractice #QualityCriteria #Copyright #S2O
🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/01/12/u...
January 12, 2026 at 4:50 AM
📢All updates to the guide to applying are being released quarterly
✅Version 2.7
In this update we address shared copyright, a new requirement for Subscribe to Open (S2O) journals, and clarify some wording
#OpenAccess #BestPractice #QualityCriteria #Copyright #S2O
🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/01/12/u...
✅Version 2.7
In this update we address shared copyright, a new requirement for Subscribe to Open (S2O) journals, and clarify some wording
#OpenAccess #BestPractice #QualityCriteria #Copyright #S2O
🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/01/12/u...
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Exploring the use of AI authors and reviewers at Agents4Science - Nature Biotechnology buff.ly/qDwnuN2
January 5, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Exploring the use of AI authors and reviewers at Agents4Science - Nature Biotechnology buff.ly/qDwnuN2
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I ran into this in another list. The title and the abstract of this paper is quite provocative.
Table 1 with the profits of the 6 major sci publishing companies is something.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
I ran into this in another list. The title and the abstract of this paper is quite provocative.
Table 1 with the profits of the 6 major sci publishing companies is something.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
The Drain of Scientific Publishing
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...
arxiv.org
January 4, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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I ran into this in another list. The title and the abstract of this paper is quite provocative.
Table 1 with the profits of the 6 major sci publishing companies is something.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
I ran into this in another list. The title and the abstract of this paper is quite provocative.
Table 1 with the profits of the 6 major sci publishing companies is something.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
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Fourth: play our funny guessing game #DiscoverOrMDPI.
Can you outguess marketing operatives from publishers by telling apart MDPI from Discover journals?
We wrote the game and the blog, and cannot win.
pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/
Can you outguess marketing operatives from publishers by telling apart MDPI from Discover journals?
We wrote the game and the blog, and cannot win.
pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/
June 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Fourth: play our funny guessing game #DiscoverOrMDPI.
Can you outguess marketing operatives from publishers by telling apart MDPI from Discover journals?
We wrote the game and the blog, and cannot win.
pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/
Can you outguess marketing operatives from publishers by telling apart MDPI from Discover journals?
We wrote the game and the blog, and cannot win.
pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/
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Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
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the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
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the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...